Article
Robotics
Filipa Correia, Joana Campos, Francisco S. S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Summary: This study proposes two new strategies of gaze responsiveness for robotic teammates in multiparty contexts, namely Attentive Gaze (AG) and Responding Gaze (RG). The results show that both AG and RG strategies improve the perceptions of fluency and work alliance of the team, as well as the teammate traits attributed to the robot.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
(2023)
Article
Robotics
Michael Koller, Astrid Weiss, Matthias Hirschmanner, Markus Vincze
Summary: This study investigates the impact of non-human inspired gaze timings on user experience in conversational settings using eye-tracking, interaction duration, and self-reported attitudinal measures. The results show that a lower gaze aversion ratio (GAR) leads to shorter interaction durations, and human participants adjust their GAR to mimic the robot's gaze behavior, albeit not strictly. In the lowest gaze aversion setting, participants do not gaze back as much as expected, indicating a user aversion to the robot's gaze behavior. However, participants do not report different attitudes toward the robot for different GARs during the interaction. In summary, humans in conversational settings have a stronger urge to adapt to perceived GAR than to regulate intimacy through gaze aversion, and high mutual gaze is not always a sign of high comfort.
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Darisy G. Zhao, Anatoly N. Vasilyev, Bogdan L. Kozyrskiy, Eugeny Melnichuk, Andrey Isachenko, Boris M. Velichkovsky, Sergei L. Shishkin
Summary: This study explored the application of E-wave detection in gaze interaction technology, demonstrating the presence of E-wave component during the eye movements of selecting moving items, which further confirmed the potential usefulness of E-wave detection in gaze-based interaction.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Linda R. Cote, Delaney C. Carey, Marc H. Bornstein
Summary: A culture learning perspective was used to study the acculturation of responsiveness in mother-infant interactions. The study examined various features of responsiveness in social interactions, such as temporal contingency, mean differences in responsiveness among and within dyads, attunement of responsiveness between mother and infant, and the influence of acculturation on individual responsiveness. The study observed 408 mothers and their 5 1/2-month-old infants from immigrant and non-migrant dyads in different cultural contexts, and analyzed their behaviors in naturalistic home settings. The findings revealed temporal contingency in mother-infant interactions across cultures, differences in responsiveness among cultures, greater responsiveness of infants compared to mothers within dyads, and acculturation effects on responsiveness in certain types of interactions. These findings have implications for understanding the development of responsiveness and acculturation in immigrant families.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Audrey Vialatte, Eric Chabanat, Agnes Witko, Laure Pisella
Summary: This study demonstrates that dyslexic individuals show slower visual search for symbols, which are graphic stimuli made up of separable visual features. The slowness is explained by reduced visual attentional field and atypical ocular behavior, and is associated with reduced VA letter span and impaired elementary visuo-spatial perception. This deficit in symbol visual search specifically hinders reading acquisition.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Megan Elizabeth Moore, Christina A. Hill, Joel G. Kingsolver
Summary: This study investigates the impact of short-term heat waves on the performance of the parasitoid wasp Cotesia congregata and its host, Manduca sexta. The researchers find that the timing of heat waves strongly determines the outcomes for the parasitoid and the host, with heat waves during certain developmental stages resulting in complete wasp mortality and abnormal phenotypes in the host. These findings highlight the importance of timing in determining the ecological impacts of extreme temperature events on host-parasitoid systems.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Lucas Felipe da Silva, Helaine Cristiane Silva, Diego Gomes Teixeira, Vladmir Vieira do Nascimento, Kellya Francisca Mendonca Barreto, Silvia Regina Batistuzzo de Medeiros, Joao Paulo Matos Santos Lima, Katia Castanho Scortecci
Summary: Understanding the impact of abiotic stress on plant development is crucial for crop improvement and management. In this study, sugarcane plants were subjected to changes in gravity using a sounding rocket, and their responses to this abiotic stress were evaluated through histological, biochemical, and molecular approaches. The results showed that the altered gravity led to significant changes in the plant's tissue structure and cell wall composition, as well as increased enzyme activity. RNA sequencing data revealed differential gene expression in pathways related to signal perception, photosynthesis, amino acid synthesis, cell division, DNA repair, and ROS scavenging. These findings expand our understanding of how plants respond to gravity changes and provide insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying abiotic stress responses.
JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jennifer X. Haensel, Tim J. Smith, Atsushi Senju
Summary: This study compared face looking and mutual gaze between East Asians and Western Caucasians using eye-tracking technology, finding that East Asians showed more engagement in mutual gaze than Western Caucasians.
Article
Robotics
Giulia Perugia, Maike Paetzel-Pruesmann, Madelene Alanenpaa, Ginevra Castellano
Summary: Through multiple interactions and questionnaire analysis, this study found that people's gaze behavior in social conversations and their gaze patterns towards robots in cooperative tasks affect their perception and performance, while gazing at objects of shared attention is the most meaningful predictor in joint tasks.
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
(2021)
Article
Robotics
Maria Lombardi, Elisa Maiettini, Davide De Tommaso, Agnieszka Wykowska, Lorenzo Natale
Summary: Social robotics is an emerging field that aims to develop robots with social behavioral skills for close interactions and collaborations with humans. This article focuses on the implementation of a mechanism for estimating gaze direction, specifically mutual gaze, as a fundamental social cue in face-to-face interactions. The proposed learning-based framework successfully detects eye contact events in online interactions with human partners, demonstrating high performance in both simulated and experimental scenarios. This work is a significant step towards creating attentive robots perceived as social partners.
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Anais Murat, Maria Koutsombogera, Carl Vogel
Summary: This paper investigates the correlation between mutual gaze and linguistic repetition, and takes it as evidence of mutual understanding. The results suggest positive correlations between the presence of mutual gaze and the repetitions in tokens, lemmas, or parts-of-speech, but negative correlations in paired levels of representation. No compelling correlation is found with duration of mutual gaze. Ignoring punctuation in counting aligned tokens yields stronger results.
LREC 2022: THIRTEEN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Ling-Xiang Liu, Zhengkun Li, Qing He, Zuliang Lu, Zhonghua Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the influence of air humidity on electromagnetic properties through a mathematical model, showing how varying humidity behaviors affect inductance and resistance measurements. The experimental results align well with the theoretical analyses, indicating that by using the model and tracking humidity data, time-variant effects can be approximately compensated.
Article
Robotics
Catharine Oertel, Patrik Jonell, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Kenneth Funes Mora, Jean-Marc Odobez, Joakim Gustafson
Summary: Listening to one another is crucial in human-human interaction, serving the function of gathering information for oneself and signaling to the speaker that they are being heard. Understanding how humans use nonverbal cues in multi-party interactions enhances our understanding of human communication and aids in the development of successful human-robot interactions.
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
(2021)
Article
Architecture
Min Li, Yuji Hasemi, Wakako Tanaka, Yuna Nozoe, Minori Nagasawa
Summary: Many historic districts and villages in East Asia are at high risk of large-scale fires due to their traditional wooden structures that are not resistant to disasters. This study focuses on preserved historic districts and villages in Japan and examines the effectiveness of a fire signal sharing system in controlling fire damage through mutual assistance among residents. The study finds that the level of cooperation among residents is closely related to neighborhood relations and interaction, and residents with close relationships are more likely to take cooperative response actions, particularly in early fire stages.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Eri Hoshino, Kuniyoshi Hayashi, Mitsuyoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Obatake, Kevin Y. Urayama, Satoshi Nakano, Yasuyuki Taura, Masaki Nio, Osamu Takahashi
PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL
(2017)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Satoshi Nakano, Mitsuyoshi Suzuki, Kei Minowa, Saeko Hirai, Noriyuki Takubo, Yuko Sakamoto, Muneaki Ishijima, Eri Hoshino, Akifumi Tokita, Toshiaki Shimizu
JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AND VITAMINOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Tatsuya Noguchi, Yoshihiko Kakinuma, Mikihiko Arikawa, Kayo Okazaki, Eri Hoshino, Tatsuo Iiyama, Toru Kubo, Hiroaki Kitaoka, Yoshinori Doi, Takayuki Sato
CIRCULATION JOURNAL
(2014)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Kazu Hamada, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Yoshiko Shimamura, Kosuke Inoue, Koji Ogata, Masayuki Ishihara, Taro Horino, Shimpei Fujimoto, Takashi Ohguro, Yukio Yoshimoto, Mika Ikebe, Kenji Yuasa, Eri Hoshino, Tatsuo Iiyama, Atsuhiro Ichihara, Yoshio Terada
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEPHROLOGY
(2013)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Kei Nakashima, Masahiro Aoshima, Yoshihiro Ohkuni, Eri Hoshino, Kohei Hashimoto, Yoshihito Otsuka
JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY
(2014)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Narongpon Dumavibhat, Tomomi Matsui, Eri Hoshino, Sasivimol Rattanasiri, Dittapol Muntham, Ryoji Hirota, Masamitsu Eitoku, Momo Imanaka, Basilua Andre Muzembo, Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Shinichi Kondo, Norihiko Hamada, Narufumi Suganuma
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
(2013)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Eri Hoshino, Sachiko Ohde, Mahbubur Rahman, Osamu Takahashi, Tsuguya Fukui, Gautam A. Deshpande
Article
Pediatrics
Eri Hoshino, Keiko Konomura, Masayuki Obatake, Kensuke Moriwaki, Michi Sakai, Kevin Y. Urayama, Kojiro Shimozuma
Summary: This study estimated the direct healthcare costs of treating biliary atresia in children using a comprehensive national database in Japan. The findings revealed that the treatment of biliary atresia is resource-intensive and costly, providing valuable information for healthcare planning and cost-effectiveness analysis.
PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Kotomi Sakai, Stuart Gilmour, Eri Hoshino, Enri Nakayama, Ryo Momosaki, Nobuo Sakata, Daisuke Yoneoka
Summary: This study developed a simple screening test using image recognition of neck appearance to detect sarcopenic dysphagia, which showed high prediction performance with an ROC-AUC of 0.877. The model with image features alone also demonstrated good prediction performance with an ROC-AUC of 0.814.
Article
Pediatrics
Eri Hoshino, Kensuke Moriwaki, Kosuke Morimoto, Kotomi Sakai, Nobuyuki Shimohata, Keiko Konomura, Kevin Y. Urayama, Mitsuyoshi Suzuki, Kojiro Shimozuma
Summary: This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of universal newborn screening for biliary atresia in a Japanese setting. The screening strategies included stool color card, direct bilirubin (DB) testing, or no screening. The results showed that universal screening could be cost-effective depending on the willingness to pay thresholds for health benefits.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2023)
Article
Gerontology
Zoie Shui-Yee Wong, Eri Hoshino, Naoki Ikegami
Summary: This study predicts the volume and spending on scheduled physician home-visit services in Japan over the next fifty years, indicating an increase in volume and spending as the population ages. The analysis suggests that reforms through changes in services-delivery and cost-reduction via technology can help reduce spending relative rates.
JOURNAL OF AGING & SOCIAL POLICY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shiori Tomita, Eri Hoshino, Keisuke Kamiya, Osugi Yasuhiro, Mahbubur Rahman
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
(2020)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Manabu Yamasaki, Kohei Abe, Rihito Horikoshi, Eri Hoshino, Hiromi Yanagisawa, Kunihiko Yoshino, Hiroyasu Misumi, Atsushi Mizuno, Nobuyuki Komiyama
GENERAL THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
(2019)
Article
Oncology
C. Fushimi, Y. Tada, H. Takahashi, T. Nagao, H. Ojiri, T. Masubuchi, T. Matsuki, K. Miura, D. Kawakita, H. Hirai, E. Hoshino, S. Kamata, T. Saotome
ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Jose Sanchez-Bornot, Roberto C. Sotero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Ozguer Simsek, Damien Coyle
Summary: This study proposes a multi-penalized state-space model for analyzing unobserved dynamics, using a data-driven regularization method. Novel algorithms are developed to solve the model, and a cross-validation method is introduced to evaluate regularization parameters. The effectiveness of this method is validated through simulations and real data analysis, enabling a more accurate exploration of cognitive brain functions.
